I've been following the "new language SDL" thread for a while, but I 
don't know if this topic has been covered.

Having been a fan of Borland, and now a user of Visual Studio, I would 
like to present the notion of using a language-independent framework, 
like the .net framework and then document it so well that us users can 
write our own front-end languages, a la Visual Basic, C#, J#, ASP.NET, etc.

So there would be the ".POV Framework" and then C#.POV, J#.POV, Visual 
POV...

Also, if I want to create a post-processor library, or an animation 
utility, or a complicated subroutine that can create a random moon for 
example, then the compiled libraries could work with all the 
implementations.

Maybe (and this is a big maybe) we could boil down the SDL to a set of 
libraries that can be plugged in to Visual Studio, or used with Java or 
Perl, etc.



I know this is a lot of work, but it would get the POV team out of the 
language biz and let them focus on thing like rendering engines and 
speed optimizations.

Sorry if this has been brought up previously, but I missed it if it was.


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Bryan Valencia

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